My Friday afternoon Web 2.0 brainwave

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All I have to do is create a new mash-up, using my blog, predictive text and Twitter.

This amazing new product will be able to let everybody know what I might do, before I do it.

The implications are enormous and I expect the UK Government will bite my hands off for the intellectual property rights Continue reading article »

40 seconds: soundtrack for a life

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How long will it be before we have truly dynamic and personalised soundtracks for our lives?

Movies have long had soundtrack music carefully chosen to enrich the scenery and to complement the action. The music affects our interpretation of the situations, consciously and sub-consciously.

Meanwhile many people routinely use portable players to listen to music as Continue reading article »

Done this level

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Should we get video game designers to shape the organizations of the future? I think our businesses might be more effective  and robust if we did.

This is not so crazy as it sounds, professional games designers know how to plan a resilient environment and define suitable roles. They also know a lot about sustaining player Continue reading article »

An object lesson in transparency

Awesome. No other word for it. I’m talking about the U.S. Government IT spending dashboard.

For sure, the dashboard is clearly in the very early stages of development and a lot of the data remains to be populated/ developed – but it is more than just a stake in the ground, it is a benchmark for the future.

Quite simply Continue reading article »

Paywall: way to go or publisher’s pipedream?

The apparently slow demise of print publications and the downward trend of online advertising revenue is making more publishers and content providers think seriously about introducing so-called ‘paywalls’ – where original content and information is available only to paying readers.

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I have been watching this for some time now and wonder if this really is Continue reading article »

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